Re: Why not make Linux source modular?

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@freya.yggdrasil.com)
25 Feb 1996 07:33:47 GMT


Followup to: <9602232047.AA14510@dcl.MIT.EDU>
By author: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>=20
> A lot of these problems would have gone away if I had integrated the
> Comtrol driver into the main kernel release; there have been many
> times when I've regretted not doing so at the start.
>=20

How hard would it be to integrate your already working driver into the
main kernel release at this stage, so you don't have to deal with this
in the future?

-hpa

P.S. I still think you'd still be better off using a pair of fixed
device numbers... :-)

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